samba - Oct 2000 - Help! bind failed on port 139 ... Address already in use

Hi all,

I had samba installed with RedHat 6.2. When I made it running by
updating inetd.conf, services, smb.conf as instructed in the man of
smbd, smbd always failed to start up with the last message:
  bind failed on port 139. socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use)

I couldn't find out which address smbd referred to here

Can someone help me with this

Thanks a lot


Hung Nguyen

* Hung Nguyen-Manager <nhung@TMA.COM.VN> [20001019 10:12]:
=>
=>Hi all,
=>
=>I had samba installed with RedHat 6.2. When I made it running by
=>updating inetd.conf, services, smb.conf as instructed in the man of
=>smbd, smbd always failed to start up with the last message:
=>  bind failed on port 139. socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use)

[snip]

...my /etc/inetd.conf

# Enable the following two entries to enable samba startup from inetd
# (from the Samba documentation).
#
#netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/smbd smbd
#netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/local/sbin/nmbd nmbd
.
.
[snip]

See, I did not enable them. Run Samba from /rc.d or whatever it is called
in Linux....


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Make sure you do not have any other daemons listening on port 137-139
 
check that by running 
"netstat -a"

SMBD is saying that there is already an application running on the NetBIOS
ports. 

Steve


On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Hung Nguyen-Manager wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I had samba installed with RedHat 6.2. When I made it running by
> updating inetd.conf, services, smb.conf as instructed in the man of
> smbd, smbd always failed to start up with the last message:
>   bind failed on port 139. socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (Address already in use)
> 
> I couldn't find out which address smbd referred to here
> 
> Can someone help me with this
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> 
> Hung Nguyen
> 
> 
> 
>

Thank you very much for your prompted reply

All of you're right, my linux started smbd within rc.d already
and I started the second one. Both failed

I don't have lsof as Robert Dahlem suggested, neither know where to get
I ran netstat -a and saw the port netbios_* has been on listening state
(it's wierd that "ps -ef| grep smbd" gave no trace of a smbd
running)

and I looked into init.d, seeing smb there already 
so I must comment out the lines for netbios in /etc/inetd.conf and run
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart

IT WORKS now, since I saw smbd -D and nmbd -D from the result of 'ps'

BUT I still couldn't access to this server fs from my Windows 2000
Profession PC. 
I could browse the workgroup and saw the server. Clicking on it will
give
message: 

	The account is not authorized to log in from this station

However, another Win95 machine could access this server, after typing in
the password for user account.
The problem seems to be relating to the encrypted password of Win2000
I don't know whether we can do something at the linux machine, rather
than updating the registry of my Win2000 to use Plain Password ?
(Since using plain password seemed to compromise the security, isn't
it?)

I'm trying to find in the samba documents to see if there is a solution
for this. Anyway, any quick help is appreciated, because I'm in hurry

Thank you once more for your help

Hung Nguyen